"So...essentially, the only way to truly fix the whole thing is to reduce the human population, right?"

That's a bit disingenuous, gnu. True, that would probably help, but you're hypothesizing a draconian solution, postulating the horns of a non-existent dilemma. If a sufficiently large portion of the existing population economized, that would help fix the problem.

However, a drop in the birth-rate wouldn't be a bad idea.

Don Firth